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of ridicule between them and common use: 

 to invent new terms, supposing the object 

 of sufficient consequence, is perhaps still 

 more open to ridicule. Mr. Burke decided 

 in favour of the word delight, to express 

 a peculiar sense of pleasure arising from 

 a peculiar cause : but the sense to which 

 we are accustomed, is perpetually recurring 

 during his essay ; and out of it, the word of 

 course returns to its general meaning : had 

 he risqued an entirely new word, and had it 

 withstood the first inevitable onset of ridi- 

 cule, and grown into use, the English lan- 

 guage would have owed one more obliga- 

 tion to one of its greatest benefactors. 



